On July 31, 1485, Caxton published his sixty-second title from the sign of the Red Pale in the London parish of Westminster. Within a month, the first Tudor king of England would ascend the throne; a new era was about to begin. The book Caxton printed that July, though, was the most renowned of all medieval romances, Sir Thomas Malory’s Le Morte d’Arthur - a book that looked back to the glories and heroic achievements of a more chivalrous age, already forgotten and idealized.
